New CEO --> layoffs ----> line go up ----> ops, not genius after all ----> deploy golden parachute.

When you hear Republicans say Russia is “defending Western values”, this is what they’re talking about.

It’s the playstations and Nintendos that always had a worthwhile ascetic. The kind of line and color that would be attractive next to a DVD player or Stereo receiver.

The Microsoft consoles meanwhile seemed to stick to that anti-ascetic popular with juvenile-boy coded gross-out toys. And this keyboard leans into that hard.

If the cartels had their cargoes insured for loss we would know exactly what it was worth. But as it is now, the value of drugs is limited only by the imagination of the police in charge.

I’ve seen pigs weigh entire marijuana plants, terracotta-pot and all, then multiply that figure by a “street value” that’s 10X what I’ve ever paid for premium bud. I’m convinced that many drug dealers go their start after seeing these inflated values advertised on TV.

Neutrinos can totally go back in time. It’s essential to the plot of “Watchmen” 2009 and that’s as good as peer review. it’s just not in physics because Einstein was a Marvel fan.

I don’t wanna see some Nazi’s testicles explode. I wanna see the Nazi’s face while his testicles explode. We are not the same.

A neutrino modem would absolutely work because the technical issues could all be solved by capturing the traffic from the future and reverse-engineering it.

Notre-Dame was crumbling from hundreds of years of neglect when the hunch-back story renewed interest and the Cathedral was “restored”. She’s burned down several times since then.

Did the reconstruction have to honor modern building codes? Did they use modern building techniques? What about materials?

Notre-Dame isn’t 850 years old. I guess I’m making a ship of Theseus argument, but who can deny that this is a modern building?

if a fire destroyed half of a historic painting, would it be acceptable to allow modern artists to stitch in new canvas and “restore” the charred painting?

Restoration is destruction. The building that stands where that historic cathedral once did is less genuine than the historic recreations in Disneyland and Las Vegas because those counterfeits don’t pretend to be anything else. I recon the near universal human approval of all archival, restoration, and collection projects are all different flavors of death denial.

Negative Income tax could operate like UBI. The hero of neoliberalism Milton Freedman supported a scheme to transfer wealth like this.

“The Callisto protocol” went from release @$60 to free on Epic, in less than two years. That’s the fastest I’ve ever seen a game depreciate.

Diagnoses cost money, all I can afford are symptoms.

Offenders entered a farm building and made off with a black Isuzu pickup and a red quad bike

Somehow I doubt that the royals get chauffeured in the Isuzu much.

The government of Rwanda is not preventing the poor from being taken advantage of, they’re taking a cut of the action.

Everyone assumes that Uncle Tom was a character like Sam Jackson’s Stephen from “Django Unchained” or Uncle Ruckus from “Boondocks”. The character in the book is nothing like this. In fact, Uncle Tom is an admirable character. How this man’s name became a slur is more complicated than it first appears.

The weird part about reading “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is that its advocacy literature, and most of us don’t need much convincing that slavery is bad. But we need this context to understand that Uncle Tom was created by a white woman to appeal to a white audience because it’s his tragedy that is supposed to persuade the reader. Uncle Tom didn’t fashion himself to please some master like Calvin Candy, he was created whole-cloth as a device to awaken empathy of white audience. It’s not his character, it’s his raison d’être.

Why does “freedom of expression” always mean “let’s hear the Nazi out” in practice?

Is it equivalent to burning the cross? The Swedish flag?

Not all flammable things are the same. The flag and cross are literal symbols of State power in Sweden, the Quran is a book that’s only precious to an oppressed minority.

I don’t feel like someone burning my symbol or flag should be punished with prison

I wanna stress that the people sentencing this man to jail are not the same as the people offended by the burning. This power dynamic is important.

These are the actions of a weak dictator terrified that his enemies sense his weakness. Works on the same principal as lifted trucks.

I still haven’t played Wasteland 3 or Divinity Original sin 2 even though I own both. And Balder’s Gate 3 is due to get discounted at Christmas. At some point, you have to measure RPG purchases against your life expectancy.

During the early '00 flight sim fans were enjoying a Russian game called IL2. The other offerings from Microsoft and Janes just couldn’t compete with the level of detail in the flight models. Turns out, the people working on the game were all trained in aerospace engineering. The guys who went to school to work for the famous Russian aviation firms were making video games instead because it paid better.

Systems are not the sum of the individual actors who participate in them. Systems can influence and even control individuals back. Therefore, individual flaws in character or intellect are necessary, but not adequate to explain why systems are flawed.

Consider the future imagined in the movie “Idiocracy 2005”. Society is collapsing because people are dumb. This is the explanation for all problems in that society. Capitalism, Resource extraction, environmental degradation, political corruption, and a rather authoritarian government are all blameless. The implication is that capitalism an authoritarianism are good if we could just be smart about it.

This is a big difference between left and right thinking. Republicans argue problems can be solved by reforming individuals; the police are good, there are just a few bad apples. Or that the right individual, at the helm of a system, can clean up all the issues with strength and resolve. This is the central pitch for supporting Trump.

No, because the vegans are right, eating meat isn’t justifiable. You can’t “both sides” morality. The attempt is an admission that you’ve lost the plot.

Consider the possibility that your feelings of guilt or being judged is a call coming from inside the house.